Netflix multiplies the announcements of attractive projects
“Animation is cinema! It’s not a cinematographic genre but pure cinema, that’s all, and we’re going to get this message across,” announced Guillermo Del Toro at the Annecy Festival during the presentation of Netflix’s animated projects. . The director of The shape of water and of alley of nightmares a summary of the general opinion of the festival-goers to thunderous applause.
The American streaming platform has not done things halfway to prove its dynamism in the field of animation in all its forms and for all audiences. Pinocchio by Guillermo Del Toro, scheduled for the end of this year, was certainly one of the most promising projects proposed, but it was really not the only one.
Great filmmakers on the platform
Henry Selick, director of The strange Christmas of Mr. Jack and of Coralinewill be back with Wendell and Wild, made in stop motion (frame-by-frame puppet animation which he has made his specialty). This story of two devils for which he collaborates with Jordan Peele (We) was made “with love and with hands” he said in a recorded message. David Fincher, who is making his animation debut, presented a segment of the series Love, Death and Robots do not sign the segment bad trip about sailors confronted with a giant crab. “I love the idea of having my actors eat giant monsters,” he joked on video.
Guillermo Del Toro (him again) also wowed festival-goers with the first images of his Pinocchio (also in stop motion) very imaginative version of the tale for which he admits having been inspired by his relationship with his father and wanting to talk about the importance of disobeying. Series EnterGalacticdefined by its authors as “When Harry meets modern Sammy, a love story between blacks that does not happen in pain” has given a lot of desire thanks to the excerpts presented by the rapper Kid Cudi, instigator of the project.
For a family audience, My Father’s Dragon by Nora Twomey (The Wolf People) and The Sea Monster by Chris Williams (The New Heroes), adventure film premiered in Annecy, confirming that Netflix has brought together big names in animation. We were also impressed by the first images of the series Nimona and we are obviously dying of impatience to discover all this in the coming months.